Suburban malls

Rick Steves

Suburban malls in a city like Cairo give wealthy locals a place to buy their name-brand shirts and pick up a Starbucks. While the unwashed masses jostle for penny loaves of subsidized bread to feed their children, I sip my $4 grande latte. Most locals shopping here manage to create an alternate reality in which there¿s no desperation.

Suburban malls in a city like Cairo give wealthy locals a place to buy their name-brand shirts and pick up a Starbucks. While the unwashed masses jostle for penny loaves of subsidized bread to feed their children, I sip my $4 grande latte. Most locals shopping here manage to create an alternate reality in which there¿s no desperation. (Rick Steves)

Suburban malls in a city like Cairo give wealthy locals a place to buy their name-brand shirts and pick up a Starbucks. While the unwashed masses jostle for penny loaves of subsidized bread to feed their children, I sip my $4 grande latte. Most locals shopping here manage to create an alternate reality in which there¿s no desperation.